.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/statistics/hexbin.py"
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.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_statistics_hexbin.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_statistics_hexbin.py:


======
HexBin
======

`ax.hexbin` is a 2D histogram plot, in which the bins are hexagons and
the color represents the number of data points within each bin.
Unlike Matplotlib, `gridsize` (by default 100) can be only a single int.

.. note::

    Available with ``mpltern>=0.5.0``

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 14-22

.. code-block:: Python

    import numpy as np

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import mpltern

    np.random.seed(19680801)
    t, l, r = np.random.dirichlet(alpha=(2.0, 4.0, 8.0), size=100000).T








.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 23-30

.. code-block:: Python

    ax = plt.subplot(projection="ternary")

    # If "edgecolors=face" (default), small hexagons look overlapping.
    ax.hexbin(t, l, r, edgecolors="none")

    plt.show()




.. image-sg:: /gallery/statistics/images/sphx_glr_hexbin_001.svg
   :alt: hexbin
   :srcset: /gallery/statistics/images/sphx_glr_hexbin_001.svg
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 31-36

.. code-block:: Python

    ax = plt.subplot(projection="ternary")

    ax.hexbin(t, l, r, bins="log", edgecolors="none")

    plt.show()



.. image-sg:: /gallery/statistics/images/sphx_glr_hexbin_002.svg
   :alt: hexbin
   :srcset: /gallery/statistics/images/sphx_glr_hexbin_002.svg
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img






.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 4.274 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_statistics_hexbin.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: hexbin.ipynb <hexbin.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: hexbin.py <hexbin.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_